2024 Fellows
Laurena Davis of Clifton, Colorado, received an Archie Green Fellowship for “Taking Stock: Ranching Women of Western Colorado.” A non-fiction storyteller and herself a member of a multi-generation Colorado ranching family, Davis will conduct in-depth oral history interviews with 12-15 women ranchers who raise cattle, sheep, buffalo, yaks, and elk in the mountains and mesas of western Colorado. Working with a small documentary team, she will record the occupational experiences of women ranchers whose “stories are as diverse as their as their stock.”
Dr. Sarah Beth Nelson of Whitewater, Wisconsin, received Archie Green support for “Community Builders: Library Workers in Wisconsin.” Nelson, an Assistant Professor at University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, with a PhD in Information and Library Science, will document the professional duties, experiences, and work culture of a diverse group of 20 library workers throughout her state and record in-depth oral histories from librarians working in public and community libraries as well as librarians working in school, academic, archives and special libraries (e.g. prison, church, hospital, and law libraries).
Documentary filmmaker Sophie Dia Pegrum of Woodland Hills, California, received an Archie Green Fellowship for her project “Guardians of the Bees.” She will conduct in-depth multimodal interviews documenting the generational knowledge and occupational lives of 20 beekeepers in family-owned businesses in the Western United States. Through semi-structured interviews, participant observation, and creative documentation, the project will document both the ancient practice and traditions of bee-keeping and modern technological adaptation being made by contemporary American apiculturists at this sensitive ecological moment.
Folklorist Kathryn Noval of Silver Spring, Maryland, received funding for her research project “Professional Body Piercers in the 21st Century: Rooted in Passion.” She will interview 20 professional body piercers, primarily from the Mid-Atlantic region, to document their skills, training, work experiences and occupational community. Presently, there is very little documentation on professional body piercers and their art or on the hundreds of shops and businesses across the country solely dedicated to body piercing that have proliferated over the last 30 years.
2023 Fellows
Scholar and retired Foreign Service Officer Atim Eneida George of Mitchelle, Maryland, received an Archie Green Fellowship for "Playing the Angel’s Game: Exploring the Perspectives of Black Foreign Service Women.” She will conduct 20 in-depth interviews with women diplomats and embassy workers, both active duty and recently retired, focusing on Foreign Service traditions, laborlore and the cultural artifacts, rituals and stories that define and influence the day-to-day experiences of working for the US State Department and its unique occupational culture.
Labor and oral historian John McKerley of Fairfield, Iowa, received funding for “Links in the Chain: Western Pennsylvania Locomotive Manufacturers.” He will interview Western Pennsylvania’s locomotive manufacturing workers to document the workers’ “half century of struggles with de-industrialization,” as well as the “turbulent period since 2017, which saw a proposed plant closing, contested contract negotiations, a strike, and the crisis of COVID-19.”
Folklorist Selina Morales of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, received funding for “Healing Work in Puerto Rico.” In collaboration with filmmaker Alexis Garcia, she will interview traditional healers living and working in Puerto Rico about their occupation and document their workplaces, their tools and gardens and record the critical networks of traditional care that supplement or substitute Western medicine on the island and beyond.
Folklorist Amy Skillman of Parkton, Maryland, received an Archie Green Fellowship to document the occupational folklife of 20-25 women sea captains. Her research will highlight these women’s day-to-day work as well as defining occupational moments, personal rituals, and their tactics to being taken seriously in a male-dominated career.
2022 Fellows
Folklorist Taylor Dooley Burden of Rockport, Indiana, received an Archie Green Fellowship to document the "Occupational Lives of Religious Workers in Kentuckiana." Burden notes that for most who participate in a religious tradition, their faith is personal and often private. For religious leaders, however, their faith is also their occupation. She will interview religious leaders in Indiana and Kentucky and record the vibrant and diverse occupational folklife of "those serving God and their communities as their life’s vocation." Interviewees include clergy working in Christian, Jewish, Muslim and other religious institutions in the upland south.
"Poultry Workers of North Carolina" will be the focus of Durham, North Carolina-based labor historian Leigh Campoamor’s Archie Green Fellowship research. Chicken is the main agricultural product of North Carolina, and the U.S. poultry industry, concentrated in the South, has undergone major changes over the last decades. Through interviews with North Carolina poultry workers including farmers, factory workers, and others who occupy discrete positions on the production chain, this project will document the essential workers who uphold this key national industry and provide insight into the everyday work lives of the people whose work keeps America fed.
"The Occupational Culture of Executive Search Consultants" is the focus of Washington, D.C. folklorist James Deutsch’s Archie Green Fellowship. In-depth interviews with executive search consultants will reflect the diversity of this white-collar occupational group, the types of executive searches they conduct, the companies they work for, and types of clients they serve. It explores the increasing racial, ethnic, gender and geographic diversity of the field and documents this influential group’s shared sets of skills, traditions, specialized knowledge and codes of behavior, while also seeking to record their expert commentary on the recent phenomenon known as the Great Resignation.
Makalé Faber Cullen and Marion Jacobson of West Orange, New Jersey, received an Archie Green Fellowship for their project "Bread, Rum and Sugar: Caribbean Bakeries in New York and New Jersey." Inspired by the rich baking traditions and retail legacies of New York and New Jersey’s Caribbean communities, folklorist Marion Jacobson and food scholar Makalé Caber Cullen will conduct an ethnography and oral history project documenting the occupational folklore and culinary traditions of bakery owners, bakers, and bakery workers in the metropolitan New York region.
A National Survey of K-12 Teachers, led by folklorist Thomas Grant Richardson of Santa Fe, New Mexico, received an Archie Green Fellowship to conduct 50+ in-depth interviews with teachers across the U.S. The project’s online interviews will document the occupational experiences of master teachers who are recipients of the prestigious Teacher of the Year Award presented by the Council of Chief State School Officers. Teachers are believed to be the largest occupational group in the U.S. and this project contributes a valuable national perspective to the AFC archive. Richardson will assemble and coordinate a team of folklorists to conduct the interviews and is collaborating with Local Learning, the nationally respected folk arts and education non-profit.
2021 Fellows
The Alaska Marine Conservation Council in Homer, Alaska, received funding for “Beyond the Breakwater: The Oral History of Gulf of Alaska Small-Boat Fishermen.” This project seeks to record in-depth oral history interviews and photographic portraits with 20 small-scale commercial fisherman based in four fishing communities across the Gulf of Alaska (Sitka, Homer, Seldovia, Kodiak). Led by project director Josh Wisniewski, who is both an anthropologist and a fisherman, the project will document occupational histories and knowledge used to harvest different fish species by the small-boat fleet –(gill netting and purse seining, trolling, long lining, and jigging)—related trades, and the changing environmental challenges faced by contemporary Alaskan fisher folk.
Aaron Paige and Elinor Levy at Arts Westchester in White Plains, New York, working in collaboration with Sun River Health, received funding to document "Community Health Workers in Downstate New York." They will interview 15-20 of the non-profit’s community health workers in rural, urban and suburban locations in the Hudson River Valley, New York City and Long Island. One of the largest Federally Qualified Health Centers in the country with over 40 locations serving more than 245,000 patients, SRH’s community health employees are trained front-line healthcare workers who typically share cultural values, ethnicity, language, socioeconomic status, and life experiences with the communities they serve.
Carmen Hewitt of Temple Hills, Maryland, was awarded an Archie Green Fellow to document “African American Nurses: The Chi Eta Phi Sorority.” A nurse with more than 30 years’ experience and training in history and oral history, she will conduct in-depth interviews with 15 members of Chi Eta Phi Sorority Incorporated, a historically Black national nursing sorority founded in 1932, in order to document members’ experiences as African American nurses in contemporary America.
Emily Hilliard received an Archie Green Fellowship for her project "Rural Free Delivery: Mail Carriers in Central Appalachia." The project will document the expressive culture and experiences of approximately 25 rural mail carriers and clerks (formerly known as postmasters) in the upper mountain South (VA, WV, KY, OH). It will focus, in particular, on the function they serve as lifelines in their community as well as how their place of work— rural post offices—are invaluable community hubs in remote rural areas.
Jared L. Schmidt of Rockaway Beach, Oregon, received an Archie Green Fellowship for his project “Tillamook: Cheesemakers in Coastal Oregon.” Over the course of a century, Tillamook Creamery’s cheese has become a nationally prominent brand while maintaining a local farmer-owner co-op model. The result is a sense of cultural heritage and identity rooted in and expressed through dairy. Schmidt will document individuals employed in the wide range of occupations associated with the county’s cheese-making process including farmers, truck drivers, factory line workers, food scientists, and marketing specialists.
Cynthia Torres will document “Custodians and Janitors in Colorado.” She worked as a custodian herself for several years before training as a documentarian at the University of Colorado. She will interview workers in this “undervalued and unnoticed” labor force and create an opportunity for custodians and janitors “to tell their stories and their relationship to their work” so the general public will better appreciate their contributions. Ms. Torres will collaborate with Prof. Jennifer Fluri (UC/Boulder) and the Oral History Program at Boulder Public Library and work in cooperation of the local SEIU.
2020 Fellows
Vyta Baselice, an independent scholar in Washington D.C., received funding for a documentation project on "Cement Workers in Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley." The Lehigh Valley in central Pennsylvania is considered “the birthplace of the American cement industry.” The project will generate approximately 20 oral history interviews and will complement Baselice’s previous research on the history of concrete and cement in industry and architecture.
Katy Clune, a North Carolina folklorist and artist Julia Gartell received funding for their project "Fixing, Mending, Making New: North Carolina Repair Professionals." Over the next year, they will interview and photodocument approximately twenty craftspeople and small business owners across North Carolina. They will focus on people who make their living repairing objects, challenging the contemporary dependence on single-use and throw-away items.
Alana Glaser, a medical anthropologist at St. John’s University in Queens, New York, received funding for "Nursing America's Vets," a project that will document nurses' experiences working for the Veterans Health Administration. Drawing on her substantial experience and contacts in the world of nursing, Dr. Glaser will interview nurses who currently work for the VA throughout the United States. She will ask them to discuss their daily routines, experiences, and career paths, and reflect on what led them into nursing and to working for America’s largest direct-care health provider.
Folklorist Samuel Kendrick and Ellen Kendrick, a photographer and educator, both of Richards, Missouri, received an Archie Green Fellowship for "Agricultural Pilots: Crop Dusters in the Rural Midwest." The researchers will collect oral histories from 12-15 agricultural pilots or “crop dusters,” starting with those who service their farm and other farms in their southeastern Missouri community.
Edward Y. Millar and Niagara University received an Archie Green Fellowship to document "The Ransomville Speedway: Stock Car Track Workers in Western New York." Millar, staff folklorist at the Castellani Art Museum of Niagara University, will document workers involved with the legendary Ransomville Speedway, a dirt track raceway founded in 1958 in Ransomville, New York by Ed Ortiz and a group of local racers known as the Ransomville Slo-Pokes. The Speedway remains a family run enterprise, and is a major source of entertainment, pride and regional identity in Niagara County and the wider Buffalo-Niagara region.
Oral historian Julie Pearson-Little Thunder and Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, Oklahoma, received funding for her project on "Immigrant Women Artists in Oklahoma." She will document 12-15 professional women artists who have immigrated to Oklahoma to explore how they have reestablished themselves and continued to pursue their art as their occupation in their new country.
Ethan Sharp of Lexington, Kentucky, received an Archie Green Fellowship for "Hope for Recovery: Peer Support Workers in Kentucky." Sharp will interview workers involved in peer support counseling in his home state of Kentucky. In response to the opioid epidemic, the state government and addiction treatment facilities in Kentucky have expanded training and employment opportunities for people in recovery from substance use disorders, allowing them to serve full-time alongside clinicians in paid positions as peer support specialists.
2019 Fellows
Lisa Gabbert, a folklorist and Professor of English at Utah State University in Salt Lake City, received funding to research "Oral Histories of Physicians' Work: An Inside Perspective on Doctoring." She will interview approximately 20 physicians in various medical specialties and collect oral histories about their training, occupational traditions, and daily work environments.
Anna-Lisa Cox, a historian working at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University, as well as Hope College in Holland, Michigan, received an Archie Green Fellowship to interview "Multigenerational and First-Generation African American Farmers of the Midwest." AFC funding will enable her to document the family histories and contemporary work experiences of approximately 25 multigenerational African American farmers whose families established farms in Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin beginning in the 1790s.
Josephine McRobbie and Joseph O'Connell, independent folklorists based in Durham, North Carolina, received an Archie Green Fellowship to document "The Culture of Birth Work in North Carolina." The researchers will focus on the occupational folklife of midwives and doulas working in a variety of institutional settings, including academic research hospitals, local community practices in under-served communities, and private homes. They will document the experiences of approximately 20 contemporary birth workers and explore the vast body of knowledge that they have inherited, learned, and practiced in the course of their professional duties.
Delainey Bowers, an independent folklorist from Bowling Green, Kentucky, received an Archie Green Fellowship to support her project "Gimmicks, Gold, and Gushers: The Occupational Folklife of Independent Professional Wrestlers." The recipient will interview approximately 12 wrestlers working in this popular, but largely unexplored Appalachian regional sport and entertainment circuit and document the voices of workers "who function as both athletes and storytellers."
Sarah K. Filkins, an independent scholar from Washington, DC, received support for her project "Women Architects." Filkins is a senior researcher with training in both architecture and oral history. She will conduct oral history interviews with a diverse group of 12-15 women architects working in large or medium-sized architecture firms owned by women or wife-husband teams, as well as in government offices and universities. She will document the voices of those who “have labored long and hard to create architectural solutions and advance in an industry that historically ignored their contributions and questioned their inclusion."
2018 Fellows
Charitie Hyman, an independent folklorist and mental health worker from Madison, Wisconsin, received support for her project "Power Place, and Prestige: The Occupational Folklore of Psychiatric Nurses in Wisconsin." Documenting work-related narratives from a diverse group of nursing professionals, this project explores issues of race, power, and prestige in workplace relationships and enhances archival holdings on the highly-skilled traditional occupation of nursing, which is presently under-documented in the AFC archive.
Meredith A.E. McGriff, a folklorist from Bloomington, Indiana, received support for research on "Production Potters of the Midwestern United States." Her project documents the occupational folklore of production potters in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan. She will focus on commercial production potters who are working full-time in this regional craft-based profession, with particular emphasis on those who participate in guilds or pottery tours, to explore how these workers balance individual craftsmanship and artistry with the need for developing and maintaining an occupational community.
Virginia Nickerson, an independent scholar and documentarian from Montpellier, Vermont, received support for "Trash Talk: Workers in Vermont's Changing Waste Management Industry." Her project documents the occupational stories and experiences of two dozen workers engaged in different sectors of the waste management chain--(trash collection, sorting, marketing, processing, management, and regulation)–to provide a picture of their experiences in an economically and environmentally important, but often hidden industry during a time of significant change.
Candacy Taylor, an independent scholar and documentarian from Denver, Colorado, received support for "The Business of the Green Book: Documenting and Celebrating African American Entrepreneurs." Her project documents people who work in contemporary businesses that were listed in The Green Book, a travel guide published between 1937 and 1967 that listed businesses—(e.g., restaurants, hotels, barbershops, taverns, drug stores, and garages)--that welcomed African American customers. Only 3% of the 9,500 businesses listed in The Green Book are still in operation. Taylor's interviews with their current owners and staffs explore their histories, how they stayed in business, and the business’s current relationships to their changing communities.
2017 Awardees
Clare Luz, a gerontologist at Michigan State University’s College of Human Medicine, received support to document "Personal Home Care Aides in Michigan." Working with a team that includes other MSU faculty members, including folklorist Marsha MacDowell and colleagues at the MSU Museum and Michigan Traditional Arts Program, Luz will document occupational histories of 30 personal care aides (PCAs) in central Michigan who have “historically have been marginalized and under-documented.”
Jess Lamar Reece Holler, an independent Ohio-based folklorist, received support for her project "Back-of-House: Kitchen Workers in Central Ohio." She will document the oral histories of veteran, part-time, and upstart back-of- house food workers in Columbus’ kitchens, community markets, food trucks, and pop-up eateries; workers who are “at once food artisans and wage laborers” engaged in a skilled trade in which many work without the benefits, security, or collective organizing afforded other occupational groups.
Christopher Sims, a documentarian from Efland, North Carolina, received support to record interviews with "Cultural Role-Players of Fort Polk, Louisiana." These "role-players"– who are both recent immigrants and long- term area residents—have evolved a unique occupational culture. They are employed to simulate Iraqi and Afghan villagers on the training grounds of a large US Army base; to work as "extras" interacting with soon-to-be- deployed troops in a simulated but serious workscape.
Kim Stryker, a folklorist from Falls Church, Virginia, received and Archie Green Fellowship to document the occupational narratives of "Winery Workers in Virginia Vineyards." She will conduct audio and video interviews with workers involved at various levels, and in numerous specialties and sub-specialties within Virginia’s rapidly expanding wine industry. An industry, Stryker notes, that is "emblematic of the paradigm shift in small-scale agriculture and economic pressures that is forcing traditional farmers to adapt by producing more value-added products and explore agritourism."
2016 Fellows
Folklorist Sarah Bryan from Durham, North Carolina, received an Archie Green Award for "Funeral ServiceWorkers in the Carolinas." She will document the work of morticians and funeral directors in North and South Carolina.
Jaime Lopez and his colleagues at the Harry Van Arsdale Jr. Center for Labor Studies (HVAC) and Local Union #3, The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) in Queens, New York, received funding for "Illuminating History," an oral history project documenting contemporary electrical workers in metropolitan New York, who "through manufacture, installation, and maintenance" make critical contributions to the fabric of daily life in New York City.
Margaret Miles of Minneapolis, Minnesota, a social services worker, writer and documentarian, received funding to conduct oral histories of workers in the emergency homeless services in three interrelated Midwestern urban centers: Bismarck, North Dakota; Minneapolis-St Paul, Minnesota; and Chicago, Illinois.
Laura Orleans, a folklorist and director of the New Bedford Fishing Heritage Center in New Bedford, Massachusetts, received support for "Workers on the New Bedford Waterfront," a project to conduct a large ethnographic field project interviewing more than 60 shore-side workers involved in the local commercial fishing industry, with a particular emphasis on under-documented Central American and female workers.
2015 Fellows
Folklorist Nic Hartman of the Southwest Folklife Alliance in Tucson, Arizona, received support to document the rich variety of workers—from produce brokers to truck drivers to customs inspectors to multi-generational business owners–involved in the Nogales' century-old fresh produce industry. The study also will examine how social and economic changes affect (and will affect) the Arizona-Sonora borderland.
Oral and labor historians John McKerley and Jennifer Sherer of the University of Iowa Labor Center in Iowa City, Iowa, received support to document "Recent Immigrant Workers in Iowa's Meatpacking Industry" and explore the ways in which these men and woman have reshaped (and been reshaped by) the state's work culture and community life.
Folklorist Christopher Mulé of the Brooklyn Arts Council and Domestic Workers United, an organization representing Caribbean, Latina, and African nannies, housekeepers, homeworkers, and elder caregivers, received support for a joint project to document the work-related experiences of immigrant domestic workers in the New York metropolitan region.
2014 Fellows
Bob Bussel, Associate Professor of History and Director of the Labor Education and the Research Center at the University of Oregon, received funding for "Taking Care; Documenting the Occupational Culture of Home Health Care Workers." To be conducted with the support of the Service Employees International Union Local 503, which represents over 11,000 Oregon home care workers.
Dale Cahill and Darcy Cahill of Bakersfield, Vermont, were awarded an Archie Green Fellowship for "Tobacco Workers in the Connecticut River Valley." They will conduct oral history interviews with tobacco workers and tobaccos farm owners in the Connecticut River Valley, which has been producing premium tobacco since the 17th century.
Folklorist Andy Kolovos and the Vermont Folklife Center in Middlebury, Vermont, received support to document "Grass-Roots Agriculture in Vermont." The project will interview contemporary farmers, growers, local specialty food producers, and food marketers throughout the state of Vermont.
Folklorist Maida Owens, director of the Louisiana Folklife Program and the Louisiana Folklore Society, received funding for "Baton Rouge Small Businesses and Trades." The project will interview workers, shopkeepers, and business owners in multigenerational small businesses and trades in the greater Baton Rouge area.
2013 Fellows
Folklorists Brent Björkman of the Kentucky Folklife Program at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, Kentucky and Jon Kay, director of Traditional Arts Indiana at the University of Indiana in Blooming, Indiana, received an Archie Green Fellowship to conduct ethnographic/oral history field interviews documenting park rangers working in Kentucky and Indiana.
Sara Jordan, an independent scholar from Logan, Utah, received support to conduct interviews with housekeepers--many of them refugees and immigrant entry-level workers--employed by Utah’s health care and hospitality industries.
Folklorist Lucy Long, director of the Center for Food and Culture in Bowling Green, Ohio, received support to document the occupational folklife of ethnic grocery store owners and workers in five Midwestern cities (Toledo, Columbus, Cleveland, and Dayton, Ohio; Fort Wayne, Indiana; and Detroit and Ann Arbor, Michigan) and explore how ethnic groceries serve as community focal points, and provide an interface between ethnic and mainstream American culture.
Folklorists Anne Pryor, Mary Hoefferle, Ruth Olson, and Mark Wagler of Wisconsin Teachers of Local Culture in Madison, Wisconsin, received support to document the occupational folklore and traditions of teaching among different sub-groups of Wisconsin teachers: elementary art teachers, and fourth/fifth grade classroom.
2012 Fellows
Folklorist Deborah Fant of Northwest Folklife in Seattle, Washington, in cooperation with the Washington State Labor Council, AFL-CIO, received support to document approximately 50 Washingtonians working in diverse occupations throughout the state.
Folklorist Hannah Harvester, Director of Traditional Arts in Upstate New York (TAUNY) in Canton, New York received support to document the lives and changing relationships of dairy farmers and farm workers in New York's North Country.
Folklorist Ellen McHale of Esperance, New York, received funding for "Stable Views: Voices and Stories from the Thoroughbred Racktrack." She will document the culture and traditions of "backstretch workers" –trainers, grooms, exercise riders, boot and "silk" makers, saddlers, hot walkers, etc.– who work largely unseen at America's racetracks and horse farms.
Oral historian Murl Riedel of the Kansas Humanities Council in Topeka, Kansas, in cooperation with the Wichita-Sedgwich County History Museum, received funding to document the voices of "Boeing Aircraft Factory Workers" and community members about their experiences working at Boeing and the aircraft manufacturer’s impact on urban Kansas.
Candacy Taylor of 29 Palms, California, received funding to document "Hairdressers and Beauty Shop Culture in America." Focusing particularly, but not exclusively, on African American beauty shops, she will document approximately 20 salons in five U.S. regions: California, Midwest, South, Northwest, and Northeast.
2011 Fellows
Folklorist Pat Jasper, Director of the Houston Folklife and Traditional Arts Program at the Houston Arts Alliance, received funding to document the culture and diverse maritime occupations involved in "Working the Port of Houston" and the Houston ship channel.
Folklorist William Westerman of Princeton University received funding to document the working lives of South Asian immigrant taxi drivers in New York City.
Folklorist James Leary of the University of Wisconsin and labor historian Bucky Halker of Chicago, Illinois, received support to study and document the cultural traditions of "Ironworkers in America's Upper Midwest."
Oral historians and documentarians Tanya D. Finchum and Juliana M. Nykolaiszyn of the Oklahoma Oral History Research Program received support to conduct oral history interviews documenting the occupational culture and traditions of American "Big Top" circus workers in the small town of Hugo, Oklahoma, where generations of circus workers went to spend their winters.
2010 Fellows
Folklorist Robert McCarl of Boise State University in Boise, Idaho, received funding to study the environmental ethics of different occupational groups in Idaho's Silver Valley.
Folklorist Nick Spitzer and ethnomusicologist Maureen Loughran of American Routes in New Orleans, Louisiana, received funding to produce a special "Routes to Recovery" series of five 2-hour radio programs devoted to economic and social recovery across the United States. In addition to music, the series will focus on workers in several occupational categories, including cowboys, automobile workers, and the building trades.
Folklorist Stephen Zeitlin, director of City Lore: The New York Center for Urban Folk Culture, received funding to coordinate a team of folklorists and filmmakers producing "Heartland Passage," a documentary film about workers along the New York State's Erie Canal. Interviewees include tugboat captains and engineers, machinists, harbormasters, drydock workers, and locktenders.
The 2010 awardees presented talks on their research at the American Folklife Center symposium "Work and Transformation: Documenting Working Americans", December 6-7, 2010
